Firstly, thank you to everyone for the comments – they bring me many smiles (especially since I am usually sleepily checking my email at 7am…we wake up super duper early here).  A special hello to all my friends at UBC and family around Canada – miss you all very very much.  Also a special congratulations to J&J on their wedding….so wish I could have been there to celebrate with you.

Bistarai, bistaarai is the phrase I referred to in my last post which means “slowly, slowly” and it couldn’t feel more like a mantra.  Everything is moving slowly for me – time passes slowly, life passes slowly, culture shock is passing slowly.